A new Guam Memorial Hospital for Guam’s residents is inevitable and must and will happen.
The Journal has published many stories through the years on the challenges that continue to beset the hospital, to include the physical defects that have been patched and have also been ignored.
The building in Tamuning has outlived its useful life.
After months of effort, steps forward and steps back, letters and releases, the new hospital and a medical campus will not come to be at Eagle’s Field in Mangilao.
In a lengthy editorial opinion piece published by this paper online and in full at www.mbjguam.com on May 4, Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson endeavored at length to share with the community the intent of the Department of Defense, his own intentions and his thoughts and disappointment.
Perhaps – as he wrote –a Local Defense Community Cooperation grant will still eventuate.
As the Journal shared in its Editor’s Note about the admiral’s submission, two such grants did occur in our region – one in Guam and one in the Northern Mariana Islands.
They clearly generated much goodwill along with the funding.
In the meantime, it’s back to the drawing board.
As we progress, one thing is clear – that all stakeholders on Guam must have a voice and representation in the next part of the process that will lead us to our hospital.
More than that, it is incumbent on all stakeholders to step forward and be part of that process – and solve the problems that stand in the way of whatever form and shape that hospital will take, wherever it will be, and wherever the funding will come from.
All of us must move on, but make that move count once and for all.
The Journal welcomes reader comments on this issue, and any of the editorials it publishes.
Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected]. mbj
The Journal has published many stories through the years on the challenges that continue to beset the hospital, to include the physical defects that have been patched and have also been ignored.
The building in Tamuning has outlived its useful life.
After months of effort, steps forward and steps back, letters and releases, the new hospital and a medical campus will not come to be at Eagle’s Field in Mangilao.
In a lengthy editorial opinion piece published by this paper online and in full at www.mbjguam.com on May 4, Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson endeavored at length to share with the community the intent of the Department of Defense, his own intentions and his thoughts and disappointment.
Perhaps – as he wrote –a Local Defense Community Cooperation grant will still eventuate.
As the Journal shared in its Editor’s Note about the admiral’s submission, two such grants did occur in our region – one in Guam and one in the Northern Mariana Islands.
They clearly generated much goodwill along with the funding.
In the meantime, it’s back to the drawing board.
As we progress, one thing is clear – that all stakeholders on Guam must have a voice and representation in the next part of the process that will lead us to our hospital.
More than that, it is incumbent on all stakeholders to step forward and be part of that process – and solve the problems that stand in the way of whatever form and shape that hospital will take, wherever it will be, and wherever the funding will come from.
All of us must move on, but make that move count once and for all.
The Journal welcomes reader comments on this issue, and any of the editorials it publishes.
Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected]. mbj
